MentalFloss.com has a great amazing facts section online. Here is a NodeJS version of it for command line happiness. To use, run as "node getfact.js"

getfact.js

var http = require('http');

var options = {
    host: 'mentalfloss.com',
    path: '/api/1.0/views/amazing_facts.json?limit=1&display_id=xhr&bypass=1'
}
var request = http.request(options, function (res) {
    var data = [];
    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
        data = JSON.parse(chunk.toString());
    });
    res.on('end', function () {
        console.log(unescape(data[0].fact_body.replace(/<(?:.|\n)*?>/gm, '')));
  console.log(' ');
    });
});
request.on('error', function (e) {
    console.log(e.message);
});
request.end();

Usage example

In a terminal type > node getfact.js
There are 293 ways to make change for a U.S. dollar.